Telegraph Toll Notes Limit And Rates
A telegraph toll notice sets charges at one dollar per word with a ten word minimum and a five word limit for short messages, outlining pricing and service constraints.
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Newspaper
Lynden Tribune
Location
Lynden, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1916
Page
4
A telegraph toll notice sets charges at one dollar per word with a ten word minimum and a five word limit for short messages, outlining pricing and service constraints.
A concise quotation by John Burroughs urges focus on the present place and moment. It emphasizes that power lies closer than imagined and the allure of distant goals can mislead. Every place is under the stars and central to the world.
Two Lynden shops at Fifth and Front equip the corner with concrete posts linked by iron chain. The project cost about five dollars per post and reflects strong civic spirit in giving Lynden a nicer display than the usual rack.
A German submarine named Deutsch arrived safely in Berlin this week, signaling a secure landing and routine naval movement during ongoing wartime operations.
After learning exact facts and mastering skills, events like war or fashion alter accepted truths. Herzegovina’s borders shift with war, the fox trot goes out of style, and the accepted spelling of judgment is challenged by a new dictionary endorsing judgement.
The Kaiser awards Von Hindenburg the grand cross of the Iron Cross, a distinction that evokes thoughts of a double cross.
A Kent Washington Holstein owner paid 21500 dollars this week for a yearling bull. The seller touted the animal as superior stock and potential high dairy yield for the farm.
A proposed one cent postage bill prompts opposition as it seeks to boost letter writing. The paper notes today’s mail includes an assortment of bills and notices from Vox Populi and A Good Citizen, plus government bulletins and liquor industry material, urging defeat of the plan.
Christmas time in Seattle turned sour as a shipment labelled toys failed inspection. exam showed the contents were San Francisco whisky. Authorities investigated the mislabeling and potential penalties for contraband liquor.
In an old Parisian style tale a French shoemaker is tricked by two youths who pretend a corpse is nearby. He works late, drinks coffee to stay awake, then bursts into song before the “corpse” rises and is told not to speak. The joke ends with the shoemaker asserting the dead should not speak. The Cape Canary is noted as Africa’s only native songbird found as far as the Orange River Colony.
A lullaby poem describes day slipping away and a baby guided to Sleepy Land. Tender sounds, mother wings, and a tiny star appear as night deepens. Dream imagery of bats owlets and lambs sets a calm, protective mood over the sleeping child.
In Whatcom County Washington 1916 the court orders Edmond Peters as administrator of Martha Peters estate to appear December 28 1916 at 9 30 AM in Lynden for cause why final account should be allowed and discharge granted. Copy notice of hearing to be published for four weeks in the Lynden Tribune.
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